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Setting the 2013 maximum property tax levy for the City of Saint Paul.
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WHEREAS, in accordance with Section 10 of the City Charter, Mayor Coleman presented to the City Council on August 13, 2012, the Mayor's proposed budget, with said recommended budgets totaling $580,973,331; and
WHEREAS, in accordance with City ordinance, Mayor Coleman presented to the City Council on August 16, 2012 the Library Agency's proposed budget, with said recommended budgets totaling $20,659,172; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor has taken into consideration levy limits imposed by the State of Minnesota and will report on the use of special levies and adherence to levy limits in accordance with State law; and
WHEREAS, the Mayor did recommend, as part of the comprehensive 2013 financing plan for the City of Saint Paul, that the 2012 net property tax levy payable in 2013 be $99,396,152 as detailed below:
Mayor's Recommended Tax Levy:
City Levy for City Operations 72,077,597
City Levy for Debt Service 10,050,902
City Levy for Library Agency 17,267,653
Total Recommended: 99,396,152
Levy for Port Authority 1,811,700
Total Levy 101,207,852
Levy for Port Authority (1,811,700)
Net Levy for City Government 99,396,152
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that in accordance with Minnesota Statutes, Section 275.065 Subdivision 1, the City Council, after considering the Mayor's recommendations, but absent public hearings on the Mayor's budget proposal, does hereby accept the budgets for fiscal year 2013, as proposed by the Mayor, as constituting the proposed budgets for the City of Saint Paul and the Saint Paul Library Agency; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED, that in accordance with the same referenced statute, the City Council, as a taxing authority, and after considering the Mayor's recommendation for property tax levies, including the requests of the Port Authority and the Library Agency, does hereby certify to the Ramsey County Auditor that the proposed maximum tax levy for the City of Saint Paul for taxes payable in 2013 (for use in calculating the Truth-In-Taxation notices to be mailed in November of 2012) as:
Total Levy (City Operations, City Debt, Port Authority, and Library Agency): 101,207,852